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...spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show the local mafia proper deference. "They didn't shoot him; they cut him and broke his bones to teach him a lesson." The visitor, an international broker with diverse interests -- major weapons systems, oil, gold -- was intrigued by the emeralds and wanted advice from his well-connected hosts. A month earlier, he had traveled deep into the Ural Mountains, driving...
...farfetched plan he called "Operation Mosquito" to undermine Soviet morale in Afghanistan -- "so named because one tiny mosquito can drive a bear crazy." The plan consisted of smuggling into Afghanistan hard drugs, Russian- language Bibles and forged copies of the Soviet army newspaper full of subversive articles -- "Disobey orders, shoot your officers in the back, that sort of thing." By Marenches's account, Reagan and CIA director William Casey approved the project, and Marenches agreed to carry it out. "When I had everything set up, I went back to Casey and said, 'Bill, can you assure me that there...
James Nachtwey, TIME: "I assumed the army would come up and arrest the ((militiamen)) and take them to the hospital. No one thought they were going to be killed. We thought they were safe because we were there, ((that)) they wouldn't shoot them with cameras around. It was totally unreasonable...
Kevin Carter, Reuter: "I had my back to the scene, and a double shot rang out. Everyone headed for cover. I did the same. Straight after, I looked back and saw ((the soldier)) about to shoot the second chap. I shot two frames off. ((Later)) everyone was 'well done-ing' me. But I knew I had missed the shot. I made the mistake of running for cover instead of turning around, coldly analyzing the situation and shooting a great execution picture . . . Why didn't we help them? I personally appealed to a policeman, 'Take your prisoners and lock them...
...appeal. In most TV dramas, as in life, people are bound by their pasts and by forces outside their control -- family history, social status, money. Nothing like that for the footloose Melrose gang. They start relationships and end them, move to New York and back again, become prostitutes and shoot ex-boyfriends -- then dust themselves off and start on the next life adventure. Melrose Place is full of the bustle of people to whom things constantly happen, yet who keep reinventing themselves. It's TV's ultimate declaration of independence...